please do. just get him to ease into exercise very slowly. once anything hurts or feels strained, he should stop. if he is macho, his playing days are over.

>
> "...the point of team sports is, using your body and your brain together,
> the brain planning moves, sure, but the body, often just reacting in split
> seconds, unpremeditated motion, knowing what it can do, what it thinks it
> can do anyway, and once in a while, once a year maybe, that perfect play,
> where all the forces and chances line up as your rushing legs and reaching
> arms, eyes, hands, lungs, even your hair are in rhythm, and you make that
> perfect pass, the assist, two bodies flashing create a tiny moment of space,
> and you put the ball through it, and your teammate is there, two hands, eyes
> locked on the ball, he grabs it, pivots, lifts, scores. Game over, you won.
> How many steals did you get? How many baskets? I want to play. I want to
> play again! I miss it. But I did play. At least, I did."

>
> my father played basketball all his life, and coached and ref'd, until
> he tore his achilles cycling and was crippled for a long while. now he is
> fine, but he thinks he is too old to be playing basketball, and he is
> probably right. i would like to send this to him. may i?
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